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Connected features the personal stories of six New Yorkers woven together into one of the most intimate series ever. This groundbreaking show changes the nature of storytelling by giving each character a camera to document their lives. The result is a unique format revealing as different as everyone appears to be, we are all universally Connected.

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Jews and Money. Asian Drivers. Polish IQ. CPT… that's racist! But where do these stereotypes come from? Comedian Mike Epps explores the backstories of this humor and how history and fact often distorts into a snide – but sometimes funny – shorthand.

"INSPIRED" features celebrities, visionaries and some of the biggest newsmakers of our generation, recounting the stories behind their biggest, life-changing moments of inspiration.

In a compelling series of verite encounters, Win Win provides unique access into the minds and lives of the world’s most-celebrated entrepreneurs and athletes.

Explore what it means to be human as we rush head first into the future through the eyes, creativity, and mind of Tiffany Shlain, acclaimed filmmaker and speaker, founder of The Webby Awards, mother, constant pusher of boundaries and one of Newsweek’s “women shaping the 21st Century.”

Nicole Richie brings her unfiltered sense of humor and unique perspective to life in a new series based on her irreverent twitter feed. The show follows the outspoken celebrity as she shares her perspective on style, parenting, relationships and her journey to adulthood.

Comedy is hard, but teaching comedy to children is hilariously difficult. Kevin Nealon is giving the challenge to some world-famous comedians. As these young minds meet with comedy’s best, get ready to learn some valuable comedy lessons, and to laugh!

James Franco loves movies. He loves watching them, acting in them, directing them, and even writing them. And now, he’s going to take some of his favorite movie scenes from the most famous films of all time, and re-imagine them in ways that only James can.

The story of punk rock singer Laura Jane Grace of Against Me! who came out as a woman in 2012, and other members of the trans community whose experiences are woefully underrepresented and misunderstood in the media.

Executive produced by Zoe Saldana (who will be the subject of one episode), a celebrity travels back to their hometown to pay tribute to the one person from their past (before they were famous) who helped change their life by giving them an over-the-top, heart-felt surprise.

Enter the graceful but competitive world of ballet through the eyes of executive producer, Sarah Jessica Parker. This behind-the-scenes docudrama reveals what it takes to perform on the ultimate stage, the New York City Ballet. Catch NYCB on stage at Lincoln Center.

Park Bench is a new kind of "talking show" straight from the mind of born and bred New Yorker and host, Steve Buscemi.

Well, in terms of treatment options, at the beginning, like many women who suffer from postpartum depression, I didn’t really want, I was very apprehensive to take medication. A lot of that has to do with the fact that as a woman who just had a child, you believe that this should be the happiest time of your life and when it’s not, it’s kind of a very sad process to think that you would have to take medication, you know, to kind of restore that. And so I was very apprehensive, and I wanted to focus on alternative medicine and kind of, I guess, get my nutrition, and I also wasn’t sleeping because I was employed at a job where I worked like kind of strange hours, from 3:00 in the morning to 8:00 in the morning. So, I wanted to kind of focus on getting, you know, my sleep schedule back, focus on exercise, and kind of like naturopathic medicine and then give myself a timeframe for that to work, and if it didn’t work within those parameters, then switch to a more traditional treatment like an antidepressant. And that’s where I am at now. I think that there is a lot of misinformation that is given in terms of, almost a stigma that people are given that, you know, take antidepressants or that admit that they do have a problem that’s beyond their control. And I think that women should just be reassured that it’s not their fault that they have postpartum depression. It is not something that they necessarily could have prevented or even stopped. There’s a lot of hormonal changes that take place during the course of pregnancy and then after childbirth. So I think that, just recognizing that, that it is a physical, you know, condition, and that it is, you know, your brain chemistry that is kind of not behaving properly. I guess that is a huge hurdle to kind of wrap your mind around, but once you are at that point, you know, there is healing and there is treatment available. It just might take a little while to get there.

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